—Jenna McCarty, Houston, Texas Yes: The odds are the same. Say you decide to spend $20. Whether you get 40 tickets out of 40,000 sold, or you get four tickets out of 4,000 sold, you own the same percentage of the total tickets in the raffle, so you have the same chance of winning. But in the latter scenario, I’ll bet the church would get complaints from people who say the price of a ticket has gone up!
